This is a subject I'd like to comment about — the lack of protests over the killing of Osama bin Laden — but I don't want to jinx things. The last time I commented on the lack of protests, all hell broke loose.

Maybe all of BHO's bowing and not talking like a cowboy (and, possibly, non-whiteness) means that he gets a little slack as he goes around trying to blow away Muslims, from pirates to dictators/terrorists to terrorists.

"Support for militants"? Doesn't that mean support for whoever is strong-arming you and your family to do their bidding? If I lived where men want to train my son to be a suicide bomber or to fly planes into tall buildings, I would be watching Iraq with envy. The chance to determine my own destiny! The chance to build a government that would encourage individual effort and reward! Wasn't this a part of why W went to Iraq? To show the mideast that it is possible to have a decent government, under which people would not always be stirred into a frenzy over the imagined danger of Israel? "Nevermind the brutality of your rulers! Look over THERE!" If people have something of their own--private property!--they are much less likely to go to war.

I think the reason is that they're hoping we don't put two and two together. He was living in a million dollar compound three miles from their primary military college, and thirty miles north of their largest city; that's like us finding America's most wanted military runaway in New Windsor NY.

So Obama's "non-whiteness" (your term) matters? Isn't this the same as calling them racists, in that they despise white Americans more because of our whiteness? Maybe they do, it's a pretty offensive (to them) thing to assume.

That's the problem with all the well-off American liberals' constant, unending obsession with race - it leads to asinine, condescending nonsense like this more often than not. Sheesh.

wv: knottes - what a lot of Obama supporters have been figuratively tying themselves up in lately.

Oh, and if someone at the end of the day is going to do me harm or otherwise violate my personal space in some manner, for what I consider no good reason, I'd much rather they act like a dick from the start. That way I'm more likely to know who I'm dealing with.

It's the ones that talk all nice and smooth and then screw my ass anyway that really piss me off. Anyone who has ever been dealt with by jerk bosses of all types in their workplace knows exactly what I'm talking about.

So no, the fact that the we have an American president who refers to them as "Pahk-ee-stahn" probably doesn't amount to a cup of warm spit. We still did what we did, in about the exact same way as a repub president would have, because in the end it's the same military personnel that carry out the orders, no matter who is giving them.

pbAndj, the distance from the city containing the compound to the town containing the academy is about three miles. More precision than that I do not warrant, because I'm not going on--and I urge you not to go on--what the media reports. Look at a map.

Adding to the discrediting of media: I think it's interesting to see the media have so many revisions regarding the distance between Osama and the academy. For example, I saw a Fox News person standing near the compound, pointing down a street, and saying that the academy was 400 yards down that road. This was after reporting much shorter distances. And then, while standing on location, they were still off by more than four hundred percent.

Too bad the Panetta Gaters don't have this scale of inconsistency to work w/.

Of course you don't really need such a devise to know what I think about these Muslim nuts: I'm not bashful.

"Still care to answer my original point, which still stands?"

If you haven't figured it out yet: I am saying that I think these folks are very capable of racial biases. And, I think that they belong to a religion that was founded by a warrior, who paved the way for his followers to turn into homicidal lunatics who irrationally lash out and kill.

I've always thought these protests were astroturf. The signs are always in English, and uniform. The angry faces swarm the camera for 30 seconds, and everyone goes home with a little silver in their pockets.